2 October - 27 November, 2025 | Thursdays 7pm - 9.30pm | Cork City

This experiential and psychoeducational course offers you a warm and supportive space to explore the ways in which you may find yourself stuck inside patterns of people pleasing while neglecting your own needs, boundaries and well-being. Together, we will explore the deep, often unconscious roots of people pleasing as a safety strategy, and learn somatic practices and resources to support you returning to your own body, cultivating inner safety, and living more rooted in your own authenticity.

People pleasing, also known as the fawn response, is usually learnt early in life - shaped by our family systems, our environments and the cultural messages we receive about what makes us “good”. When love, approval and safety become dependent upon us being “good”, agreeable, self-sacrificing, attuned to others needs over our own, we learn to adapt. 

While this way of relating may have helped us to avoid conflict and preserve connection, overtime it can leave us feeling disconnected from our authentic self, struggling to know our own needs and desires, feeling weighed down by the exhaustion of endlessly tending to others while ignoring ourselves.

Deep down, we long to return to who we really are.

Yet, our sense of safety can often feel so entangled with the approval of others. At the heart of this course is the understanding that when we cultivate a deep sense of safety and belonging within our own selves, we create the inner ground that allows us to slowly let go of people-pleasing and open to more authentic ways of relating.  

This course weaves together somatic therapy, depth psychology, movement and breath practices, as well as music, poetry and ritual, to support you in turning your attention back towards your own self - inwards and downwards - attuning to the language of your own body.  With curiosity and kindness, we will come to understand the wise and protective role of people pleasing, while learning to listen within to the parts of you that you had to turn away from to appease others - often these parts hold our authentic voice, our needs, our desires, our protective anger, our power. 

By anchoring your awareness down into the felt sense of your body, you can begin to slowly reclaim theses silenced parts, learning to offer them the medicine of your own attention, listening to their stories of unmet needs, whispering to them words of kindness, until slowly you weave a sense of safety and belonging back into your bones. You come to know again the sound of your authentic voice, honouring your own needs and desires, strengthening your boundaries, trusting again in your own instincts and intuition.

As you breath these parts of yourself back to life, you come to discover that your capacity for empathy, care and attunement to others remains - but now can be expressed without abandoning your own self in the process. 

Artwork licensed from Tijana Lukovic

Rooting into Rest

23 November 2025 | Sunday, 10am – 2pm

As we journey into winter, these darker months invite us to settle into a slower, more gentle rhythm with ourselves, to turn our attention inwards, to tend to our inner selves and to let ourselves remember the medicine of rest. 

Weaving together somatic movement practices, gentle yoga, embodied enquiries, ritual and poetry, we will journey down into the felt sense of our bodies, attuning to the language of instinct and intuition, and exploring rest not just as something that we do, but as an embodied skill- a way of inhabiting our bodies with greater softness and creating space within to listen to the feminine wisdom deep inside our bones. 

As nature continues to shed and retreat into the dark before new growth can occur, we will invite the releasing of what no longer serves us- the old patterns, the limiting beliefs, the tensions that keep us from resting deeply. Together, we will root down into the body’s ground of support, resting inside the stillness and listening within to the quiet wisdom of those inner seeds that may want to be planted for the months ahead. 

We will also tend to our nervous system, learning how to settle into safety so that rest can feel more natural and easeful - while deepening our awareness of what brings true joy and nourishment to our bodies. 

It is my hope that this half day retreat will offer you the nourishment of renewed connection with your body and the medicine of gathering together in circle with other women. You will be offered somatic resources and guided meditation recordings to support you in your daily life.

This retreat takes place at 4 Tuckey Street, Cork, a beautiful soul space in the heart of Cork City. Tea and nourishing snacks included.

Booking is essential. Places are limited.

Artwork licensed from Mirella Salame

€80

Supervision - Online

I offer supervision to psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as to those working within the healing arts such as yoga teachers, body-workers, meditation teachers and healers.

My integrative approach draws on my ten years of experience as a counselling psychologist and somatic psychotherapist specialising in the area of trauma, as well as my trainings and knowledge in depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, emotion focused therapy, psychoanalytic theory, nervous system regulation and mindfulness based practices. My approach is also shaped by my love for the journey of the soul and how we can draw on creative approaches for healing and growth such as imagery, dream work, mythology, art and dance.

I offer a warm, safe and heartfelt space for you to feel encouraged and supported in the work that you are offering to others. You will also be offered resources, somatic practices and self-care suggestions to help you stay grounded and at ease in your work.

These sessions take place online.

For more information or to book an initial session, please complete the form below.

1-1 Somatic Psychotherapy

*My waiting list is currently full. You may be interested in some of my other offerings.

These individual sessions offer you a gentle and supportive space to safely explore the felt sense of your body and to deepen your connection with your own inner wisdom. Weaving together depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy and breath and movement practices, you are invited to slow down and attune to the language deep inside your body- coming to know your bodily sensations, listening to your patterns of holding and tension and the ways in which your body may be stuck in fight/flight/freeze/fawn survival responses as a result of past trauma.

By tending to your body in this way, you will sharpen your instincts and intuition, strengthen your somatic boundaries and come to know what can support and resource these holding patterns. This enhances your capacity to regulate your nervous system which supports you in cultivating a sense of safety within and in being in nourishing relationship with your own self and others.

Learning to inhabit the felt sense of your body is also a doorway into presence, a way for you to access your own aliveness and creativity and to come to know what brings you joy and vitality.

Sessions take place weekly and are 50 minutes. Each week you will be offered a rich variety of resources, somatic practices, guided meditations and journal prompts to support and strengthen your process. Sessions are offered in-person (Cork City) or online.

*My integrative approach draws on my ten years of experience as a psychologist and somatic therapist specialising in the area of trauma, as well as my trainings and knowledge in depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, emotion focused therapy, psychoanalytic theory, internal family systems, nervous system regulation and mindfulness based practices. My approach is also shaped by my love for the journey of the soul and how we can draw on creative approaches for healing and growth such as imagery, dream work, mythology, art and dance.

*Please note: as this is in-depth therapeutic work, it is preferable that you have some prior experience with personal development work.

*My waiting list is currently full. You may be interested in some of my other offerings.

Weaving Self-Kindness back into the Body

12 Sept - 17 Oct | Thursdays 7pm - 9.30pm | Cork City

This experiential and psycho-educational course offers you a warm and supportive space to explore your relationship with your own self, while learning somatic practices and resources to cultivate safety within your body and support you in coming into a more kind and nourishing relationship with your own self.  

Weaving together somatic psychotherapy, embodied enquiry, movement and breath practices, as well as music and poetry, you are invited to slow down, turn your attention inwards and attune to the language deep inside your body – listening to the ways in which you speak to your own self, getting to know those parts of yourself you have come to turn away from and deepening your awareness around how these rejected parts can get carried in the body as patterns of tension and tightness.

By anchoring your awareness back down into the felt sense of your body, you can begin to slowly reclaim these rejected parts of yourself, learning ways to offer them the medicine of your own attention, listening to their stories of unmet needs, whispering to them words of kindness, until slowly you weave a sense of belonging back into your bones, coming to know again the sweetness of your own voice, honouring your needs, trusting your instincts and intuition, and strengthening your boundaries.

In this course you will:

- Learn about the nature of self-kindness

- Learn about the origins of self-criticism, it’s role in self protection and the ways in which it can interrupt your capacity for self-kindness

- Learn about the nature of stress and trauma and how to identify your body’s holding patterns of fight/flight/fawn/freeze

- Learn about the relationship between self-criticism and these patterns of holding and tension in the body

- Learn about the role of the nervous system in regulating your emotions and learn somatic practices for cultivating safety within your body and turning towards these patterns of holding and tension with gentleness and kindness

- Deepen your awareness of what brings joy and nourishment to your body

- Explore somatic practices for softening your body into a place of rest and restoration

Each week you will be offered a rich variety of resources, somatic practices, guided meditations and self-kindness journal prompts to support and strengthen your process.

This course takes place at 4 Tuckey Street, Cork, a warm and nourishing space in the heart of Cork City.

Booking is essential. Please note purchases are non-refundable.

€300

Artwork licensed from Tijana Lukovic

Blossoming into Being

Saturday 4 May 2024 | 10am – 2pm

Taking place around the time of Bealtaine, the Celtic festival that marks the beginning of summer, this change in season invites us to celebrate the beauty of nature as she blooms into her fullness, to listen inside to what longs to bloom within our own selves, and to welcome the possibilities that can arise with the return of the light.  

Drawing on gentle yoga, somatic movement practices, embodied enquiries, ritual and poetry, we will journey down into the felt sense of our bodies, attuning to the language of instinct and intuition, and listening to the feminine wisdom deep inside our bones.

As the natural world transitions into the brighter months of the year, we can feel the warm stirrings of summer as nature slowly unfurls and begins to blossom into fullness. In the spirit of Bealtaine (that translates from old Gaelic to “Bright Fire”), we will turn our attention inwards to shine light on our deepest desires and longings, listening within to how we can support ourselves in our own unfurling and blossoming so that, just like nature, we too can express the light of our own vitality, aliveness and fullness of being.

We will also support the settling of our nervous systems to bring us into a place of restoration and deep rest, as well as deepening our awareness of what brings joy and nourishment to our bodies.

It is my hope that this half day retreat will offer you the nourishment of renewed connection with your body and the medicine of gathering together within a circle of women. You will be offered somatic resources and guided meditation recordings to support you in your daily life.

This retreat takes place at 4 Tuckey Street, Cork, a beautiful soul space in the heart of Cork City. Tea and nourishing snacks are included.

Booking is essential. Please note - tickets are non-refundable.

Artwork licensed from Joséphine Klerks

€80